Research

The publication of this supplement was funded by the UK Department for International Development through a grant (PO5467) to the Future Health Systems (FHS) Consortium. The articles have undergone the journal's standard peer review process for supplements. Supplement Editor SB declares that they have been the Chief Executive Officer of the Future Health Systems Consortium since 2011, and in this capacity have interacted closely with many of the teams contributing papers to this supplement. The Supplement Editors declare that they were not involved in the peer review process for any paper on which they are an author.

Many effective innovations and interventions are never effectively scaled up. Implementation research (IR) has the promise of supporting scale-up through enabling rapid learning about the intervention and its ...

Effective stakeholder engagement in research and implementation is important for improving the development and implementation of policies and programmes. A varied number of tools have been employed for stakeho...

The Theory of Change (ToC) is a management and evaluation tool supporting critical thinking in the design, implementation and evaluation of development programmes. We document the experience of Future Health S...

Many approaches to improving health managers’ capacity in poor countries, particularly those pursued by external agencies, employ non-participatory approaches and often seek to circumvent (rather than strength...

The use of participatory monitoring and evaluation (M&E) approaches is important for guiding local decision-making, promoting the implementation of effective interventions and addressing emerging issues in the...

Researchers and policy-makers alike increasingly recognise the importance of engaging diverse perspectives in implementation research. This roundtable discussion presents the experiences and perspectives of th...